How to install MyPaint 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install MyPaint 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

MyPaint is a simple painting tool designed with Wacom-style graphics tablets. It is featured with highly configurable brush engine, speed, and a full-screen mode. The paint application allows the artists to work in a comfortable environment. The method to install MyPaint application is so simple and this tutorial covers the ground on installing MyPaint on Ubuntu 18.04.

Features

&bull Inking tool for smooth strokes.
&bull Flood Fill tool.
&bull Several masking modes
&bull Clearer icons and freehand cursors.
&bull Accelerator map editor
&bull Many other bugfixes, translations, and code quality improvements.

Installation

Before installation, you need to update the system repository using this following command

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease               
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [83.2 kB]
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Fetched 166 kB in 1s (113 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

After updating repo you can install it as follows

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install mypaint -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.

The following additional packages will be installed:


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Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Setting up python-gi-cairo (3.26.1-2) ...
Setting up liblapack3:amd64 (3.7.1-4ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3 to provide /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblapack.so.3 (liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu) in auto mode
Setting up python-numpy (1:1.13.3-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mypaint (1.2.0-4.1) ...

After the installation, you can access the application from the activity menu

You can verify the application from the help menu

with this, the method install MyPaint 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.